Literary Hauntings (3)
Apparitions have long been a staple of fiction, perhaps since
early storytellers gathered around the fire to swap
spine-tingling tales. What are the sources of readers' perennial
attraction to spectral beings, haunted houses, paranormal
events, and things that go bump in the night? Students read a
diverse selection of short stories and novels by classical and
contemporary authors of ghost stories and other literary
hauntings, ranging from Edgar Allen Poe, W. R. James, Henry
James, and Edith Wharton to Shirley Jackson, R. K. Narayan,
Susan Hill, and Toni Morrison. Students consider the elements
that make such uncanny tales satisfying and deepen their
understanding of the forms and variations of literary texts
written to produce both dread and pleasure.

OPEN

002

We Are All Zombies

03.00

Sha,R

MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

We Are All Zombies (3)
What is consciousness, and how automatic is it? If neuroscience
underscores the automatic nature of many of our thoughts--some
studies suggest that two thirds of our thoughts wander out of
our own control--how do we defend humanity from being reduced to
zombies, and how must we adjust our concepts of agency and
personhood in the wake of our irrefutable automaticity? This
interdisciplinary course turns to philosophy, literature,
popular culture, and neuroscience to ask if we can be more than
zombies, and what consciousness and agency are if we don't
always control them. Texts include The Walking Dead, philosophy
by David Chalmers, and neuroscience by V. S. Ramachandran, David
Eagleman, and Antonio Damasio. Literary and cinematic models of
the human serve as a contrast, and the class reads William
Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Tom McCarthy's novel
Remainder, and Steve McQueen's Shame to frame alternative
notions of how automaticity and personhood can be synthesized.

OPEN

003

Desire and Identity

03.00

Brideoake,F

TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Desire and Identity (3)
Who, how, and what do we want? How are gender and sexuality
distinct and interrelated? How are desires and identities shaped
by race, gender, class, embodiment, and nationality? This course
considers these questions and more through literary, cultural,
and critical texts drawn from the Renaissance to the present
day. It serves as an introduction to both literary analysis and
the study of gender, sexuality, and queer theory.

WAIT-3

004

Thought Crimes

03.00

Smith,K

W 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Instructional Method: Hybrid.
Thought Crimes (3)
This course examines what is a thought crime and the origins of
the idea of mental transgression and its place in the modern
world. Law, philosophy, and neuroscience offer tools for
analyzing literature and film from diverse periods.

Shakespeare's First Decade: Greatest Hits (3)
How did Shakespeare become a giant of literature? This course
surveys the first half of Shakespeare's career, showing him as a
developing artist, learning the tricks of the trade, attuned to
political and religious happenings, and responding to the
vibrant London theater scene where he soon made his mark. It
covers a sampling of comedies, tragedies, and histories.
Students take a field trip to the Folger Shakespeare Library and
attend a live performance.

The Three Rs: Royals, Religion and Revolution (3)
Religious devotion, class conflict, and political upheaval
marked seventeenth-century Britain, sparking some of the
greatest writing England has ever known. Students read a
sampling of poems, plays, and novellas that take us from
disintegrating kingdoms and religious soul-searching to early
science fiction, passing through political propaganda,
proto-feminist fantasies, metaphysical musings, and much more.
This course explores the reciprocal dynamics of literature and
revolution: how political revolution affects literary
production, and how literature in turn shapes political
imaginings. William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Aemilia
Lanyer, Francis Bacon, Margaret Cavendish, Andrew Marvell, and
John Milton, among others, are the guides through this
tumultuous period. Students take a field trip to the Folger
Shakespeare Library to examine early editions of some of the
texts.

LIT-337

Topics in Restoration & 18th C

OPEN

001

The 18th Century Woman Writer

03.00

Brideoake,F

TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

The Eighteenth-Century Woman Writer (3)
Virginia Woolf famously praised "the elements of Jane Austen's
greatness," identifying her as the first female writer in
English to have transformed her sex into a strength, rather than
a weakness, in the creation of fiction. Austen was, however,
only one in a succession of eighteenth-century female authors in
a period in which both the reading and writing of novels were
understood as feminine pursuits. This course explores this often
overlooked tradition; its transformations of novelistic form,
narration, and plot; and its explorations of themes including
sexuality, sensibility, marriage, education, motherhood, duty,
and autonomy. Readings include a range of authors celebrated in
their day and variously remembered, and largely forgotten, now,
including Eliza Haywood, Sarah Scott, Mary Hays, Elizabeth
Inchbald, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft,
and Jane Austen.

David Lynch and the Cinematic Sublime (3)
This course looks at the innovative work of director David Lynch
through the particular lens of the sublime, an aesthetic concept
defined primarily as the feeling of terror and awe that arises
when reason's limits are reached. Lynch's films, such as Blue
Velvet, The Elephant Man, and Mulholland Drive, are perplexing
and captivating because they suggest that the image of control
that cultural conventions provide actually separates us from
larger and more meaningful experiences. He denaturalizes the
everyday, usually through satire, and then uses sounds and
images to evoke a transcendent or intuitive reality that we
usually repress. Students consider competing theories of the
sublime and the particular ways in which film is able to convey
these ideas and watch Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Jaws, The Matrix,
Into the Wild, Melancholia, and Life of Pi in addition to eight
Lynch films.

Hollywood in the Seventies (3)
The seventies (defined broadly here as the "New Hollywood"
period of 1967-80) was a transformative moment for Hollywood
filmmaking. Following the end of the Hays code and the break-up
of the studio system, American cinema became darker as it began
to assimilate the new social movements of the sixties.
Meanwhile, young, film-schooled directors introduced new kinds
of film narrative and style and American film absorbed the new
influences of international art cinema. This course examines
some of the major films of the period, and considers the
transformation of Hollywood genres and the new cultural politics
of the seventies.

LIT-360

Topics in Medieval Literature

OPEN

001

Criminal Intent in Law Lit/Soc

03.00

Smith,K

W 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Instructional Method: Hybrid.
Criminal Intent in Law, Literature and Society (3)
The concept of mens rea or criminal intent is a relatively new
legal innovation, dating from the Middle Ages. By reading
Augustine and Abelard as well as ancient legal codes, this
course studies the origins of the creation of a moral self that
was based on the mind, as opposed to observable actions. The
poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer offers an important example of how
writers of the period used the idea of individual intent to
develop literary character and to represent human subjectivity.
Medieval plays that represent the thought crimes of Satan
provide a platform for thinking about intention and religious or
intellectual dissent. Students examine the related problems of
just intent in just war theory from its medieval origins to
current conflicts, as well as how recent literary works by Junot
Diaz and Alice Munro understand intention as both a problematic
and a defining element of culpability and the moral self. Modern
theories of intention and morality from philosophers and
neuroscientists offer additional theoretical lenses for
analyzing the course readings.

LIT-365

Mediterranean Literature

OPEN

001

03.00

LIT-367

Topics in World Literature

OPEN

001

Love & Rev: Asian/American Lit

03.00

Wong,L

TF 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Love and Revolution: Asian/American Literature (3)
This course investigates how themes of love and revolution
converge in twentieth and twenty-first century Asian/ American
literature. Analyzing the Asia/Pacific, between Asia and
America, as itself a space for cultural production, the class
discusses issues including: the emergence of "free love"
discourse in early twentieth-century literary movements, the
restructuring of intimacy in Sinophone martial arts novels,
aspirations for cross-racial solidarities in activist literature
during the Cold War, and the navigation of sexual/ body politics
in contemporary online fiction. As such, representations of
"love" are approached as deeply historical projects, projects
that provide means to trace the developments in discourses on
identity, collectivity, and political agency.

LIT-379

Mediterranean Cinema

OPEN

001

03.00

LIT-381

Topics in Cultural Studies

OPEN

001

Literature from the Holocaust

03.00

Strauss,L

TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Literature from the Holocaust (3)
This course explores the Holocaust through the prism of
literature written during and after World War II. Poetry,
plays, short stories, diaries, and memoirs written by both
victims and observers reveal an extraordinary level of detail
about individual lives touched by the tragedy. Course materials
range from secret diaries created inside ghetto walls, to epic
poems hidden as their authors were being deported, to post-war
survivor memoirs, to short stories and novels written by those
who had not yet been born during the war years. Meets with
JWST-320 001.

(Meets with JWST 320 001)

LIT-400

Creative Writing: Fiction

Prerequisite: LIT-107.

WAIT-1

001

03.00

Grant,S

T 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

LIT-401

Creative Writing: Poetry

Prerequisite: LIT-107.

WAIT-1

001

03.00

Dargan,K

TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

LIT-403

Creative Writing: Nonfiction

Prerequisite: LIT-107.

OPEN

001

03.00

Christensen,K

W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

LIT-434

Adv St Medieval/Early Mod Lit

OPEN

001

Early Modern London

03.00

Payne,D

W 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Early Modern London: Text, Sound, and Space (3)
Between 1580 and 1700, London doubled its population, going from
a modest city to a bustling, rich, cosmopolitan metropolis that
gave its rivals, Paris and Amsterdam, considerable pause. This
period saw enormous spatial, physical, and cultural
transformation, giving birth to new forms of art, new ways of
mapping movement, new modes of human interaction; new materials
for building, even a new way of thinking about money and wealth.
The class experiences the imaginative and material riches of
this extraordinary period in English history, exploring how
early modern Londoners thought about themselves in relation to
the changes taking place. Readings include "city" comedies;
verse satires; newsletters and ballads; maps; and letters and
diaries. Musical and dance excerpts, as well as paintings and
prints supplement readings. The seminar emphasizes archival
research and students learn how to work in databases of primary
texts, such as Early English Books Online, in order to embark on
original projects. Meets with LIT-634 001.

(Meets with LIT 634 001)

LIT-443

Adv Std in 20th Century Lit

OPEN

001

Feminism and Fiction

03.00

Rubenstein,R

MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Feminism and Fiction (3)
Students read selected literary texts written primarily by women
and primarily during the past 150 years, along with
philosophical, critical, and theoretical essays that mark
several waves of feminism. Texts include The Book of the City
of Ladies, Christine de Pizan; Jane Eyre, Bronte; A Room of
One's Own and Orlando, Woolf; The Awakening, Chopin;
Bread-givers, Yezierska; Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys; Their Eyes
Were Watching God, Hurston; How the Garcia Girls Lost their
Accents, Alvarez; Nervous Conditions, Dangarembga; The Bloody
Chamber, Carter; and classic and contemporary short stories.
Meets with LIT-643 001.

Auteur Study: Alfonso Cuaron (3)
After the production credits, most feature films feature a
single card stating that the following is "a film by..."
usually, the director of the film. Such is the power of the
director as auteur, where we ascribe authorship of a film (which
is inherently a collective project), to a single person. This
method of cinematic analysis has been popular since at least the
late 1950s, and not just in academia. Indeed, the concept of the
auteur, and even the word itself, is consistently used by
marketing strategists and the public. What is gained, or lost,
by privileging (or fetishizing) the director? How does studying
a director differ from studying a writer or an actor? This
course examines the history of auteur study and explores
different manifestations of how authorship has and can be used
within cinema studies. Throughout the course, the work of the
transnational director Alfonso Cuaron is used as a case study
through which to examine issues of cinematic authorship.
Additionally, students select a second director to do a full
research project. The course includes mandatory film screenings.
Meets with LIT-646 001.

(Meets with LIT 646 001)

LIT-479

Sr Sem in Lit: Value of Lit

OPEN

001

03.00

Dussere,E

TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

LIT-490

Ind Study Project in Lit

Permission: instructor and department chair.

OPEN

001

Puerto Rico: Colonized Mind

01.00-06.00

Trembath,S

CLOSED

002

Romanticism, Taste, and Food

01.00-06.00

Berry,A

LIT-491

Practical Internship in Lit

Permission: instructor and department chair.

OPEN

001

01.00-06.00

Kakoudaki,D

LIT-496

Selected Topics:Non-Recurring

OPEN

001

The Mythographer's Craft

03.00

Pathak,S

TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

The Mythographer's Craft (3)
Greek and Roman mythographers gave new life to older epic
stories in eras when collections of classical tales were in
great demand as texts for teaching and learning. This course
traces the transformation of the birth of the gods, Jason's
voyage with the Argonauts, and Aeneas's travels after the Trojan
war to illuminate the fates of these narratives when distilled
from Hesiod's Theogony, Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, and
Vergil's Aeneid into Apollodorus's Library and Hyginus's
Fabulae. As the epic tales took shape and were reshaped in
Archaic and Hellenistic Greece and early imperial Rome, these
metamorphosing stories resonated through theologies, rituals,
politics, and societies. Appreciating the particular patterns of
these narratives' shifts over time and across space by studying
these movements as processes unfolding within their respective
historical and religious traditions reveals what Greek and Roman
myths contributed to their cultures both separately and
together. Meets with LIT-696 001 RELG-486 002 RELG-686 002.

(Meets with LIT 696 001 RELG 486 002 RELG 686 002)

LIT-634

Adv St Medieval/Early Mod Lit

OPEN

001

Early Modern London

03.00

Payne,D

W 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Early Modern London: Text, Sound, and Space (3)
Between 1580 and 1700, London doubled its population, going from
a modest city to a bustling, rich, cosmopolitan metropolis that
gave its rivals, Paris and Amsterdam, considerable pause. This
period saw enormous spatial, physical, and cultural
transformation, giving birth to new forms of art, new ways of
mapping movement, new modes of human interaction; new materials
for building, even a new way of thinking about money and wealth.
The class experiences the imaginative and material riches of
this extraordinary period in English history, exploring how
early modern Londoners thought about themselves in relation to
the changes taking place. Readings include "city" comedies;
verse satires; newsletters and ballads; maps; and letters and
diaries. Musical and dance excerpts, as well as paintings and
prints supplement readings. The seminar emphasizes archival
research and students learn how to work in databases of primary
texts, such as Early English Books Online, in order to embark on
original projects. Meets with LIT-434 001.

(Meets with LIT 434 001)

LIT-643

Adv Std in 20th Century Lit

OPEN

001

Feminism and Fiction

03.00

Rubenstein,R

MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Feminism and Fiction (3)
Students read selected literary texts written primarily by women
and primarily during the past 150 years, along with
philosophical, critical, and theoretical essays that mark
several waves of feminism. Texts include The Book of the City
of Ladies, Christine de Pizan; Jane Eyre, Bronte; A Room of
One's Own and Orlando, Woolf; The Awakening, Chopin;
Bread-givers, Yezierska; Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys; Their Eyes
Were Watching God, Hurston; How the Garcia Girls Lost their
Accents, Alvarez; Nervous Conditions, Dangarembga; The Bloody
Chamber, Carter; and classic and contemporary short stories.
Meets with LIT-443 001.

Auteur Study: Alfonso Cuaron (3)
After the production credits, most feature films feature a
single card stating that the following is "a film by..."
usually, the director of the film. Such is the power of the
director as auteur, where we ascribe authorship of a film (which
is inherently a collective project), to a single person. This
method of cinematic analysis has been popular since at least the
late 1950s, and not just in academia. Indeed, the concept of the
auteur, and even the word itself, is consistently used by
marketing strategists and the public. What is gained, or lost,
by privileging (or fetishizing) the director? How does studying
a director differ from studying a writer or an actor? This
course examines the history of auteur study and explores
different manifestations of how authorship has and can be used
within cinema studies. Throughout the course, the work of the
transnational director Alfonso Cuaron is used as a case study
through which to examine issues of cinematic authorship.
Additionally, students select a second director to do a full
research project. The course includes mandatory film screenings.
Meets with LIT-446 001.

(Meets with LIT 446 001)

LIT-651

Readings in Genre: Poetry

Restriction: Literature (MA).

OPEN

001

03.00

Manson,M

TH 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

(Meets with LIT 651 002)

OPEN

002

03.00

Manson,M

TH 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

(Meets with LIT 651 001)

LIT-690

Ind Study Project in Lit

Permission: instructor and department chair.

OPEN

001

Writing/ Reading: D.C. Poets

01.00-06.00

Young,M

OPEN

002

The Long Poem in American Lit.

01.00-06.00

Keplinger,D

CLOSED

003

Graduate Non-Fiction Writing

01.00-06.00

Snyder,R

CLOSED

004

Independent Study

01.00-06.00

Dargan,K

LIT-691

Graduate Internship

Permission: instructor and department chair.

OPEN

001

03.00

Keplinger,D

LIT-696

Selected Topics:Non-Recurring

OPEN

001

The Mythographer's Craft

03.00

Pathak,S

TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

The Mythographer's Craft (3)
Greek and Roman mythographers gave new life to older epic
stories in eras when collections of classical tales were in
great demand as texts for teaching and learning. This course
traces the transformation of the birth of the gods, Jason's
voyage with the Argonauts, and Aeneas's travels after the Trojan
war to illuminate the fates of these narratives when distilled
from Hesiod's Theogony, Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, and
Vergil's Aeneid into Apollodorus's Library and Hyginus's
Fabulae. As the epic tales took shape and were reshaped in
Archaic and Hellenistic Greece and early imperial Rome, these
metamorphosing stories resonated through theologies, rituals,
politics, and societies. Appreciating the particular patterns of
these narratives' shifts over time and across space by studying
these movements as processes unfolding within their respective
historical and religious traditions reveals what Greek and Roman
myths contributed to their cultures both separately and
together. Meets with LIT-496 001 RELG-486 002 RELG-686 002.

(Meets with LIT 496 001 RELG 486 002 RELG 686 002)

LIT-700

Advanced Fiction Workshop

Restriction: Creative Writing (MFA).

WAIT-1

001

03.00

Perkins-Valdez,D

TH 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

LIT-701

Advanced Poetry Workshop

Restriction: Creative Writing (MFA).

CLOSED

001

03.00

Keplinger,D

T 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

LIT-704

Adv Creative Nonfiction Wrkshp

Restriction: Creative Writing (MFA).

OPEN

001

03.00

Snyder,R

T 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

LIT-705

Seminar on Translation

Restriction: Creative Writing (MFA).

CLOSED

001

03.00

Keplinger,D

TH 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

LIT-730

Teaching Composition

OPEN

001

03.00

Auten,J

M 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

LIT-737

Seminar in 19th C. Literature

OPEN

001

Sympathy/Contact Amer Rom Lit

03.00

Noble,M

T 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 08/28/17 12/16/17

Sympathy and Human Contact in American Romantic Literature (3)
Many American authors of the Romantic era criticize the faades
people present for misrepresenting their true feelings and
thoughts. Students in this course read works by Emerson,
Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson and Whitman -- authors who
idealized sympathy as a means of achieving genuine human
contact. This course examines their varying ideas of what
sympathy means and how it might promote human contact. Students
also read scholarship and philosophies of human contact and
sympathy.